Twitter4j for getting tweets - twitter

Question

I have write this simple code for getting tweets from twitter
public static void main(String[] args) throws TwitterException {
// TODO code application logic here
ConfigurationBuilder cb = new ConfigurationBuilder();
cb.setDebugEnabled(true)
.setOAuthConsumerKey("**********")
.setOAuthConsumerSecret("**************")
.setOAuthAccessToken("***************")
.setOAuthAccessTokenSecret("**************");
TwitterFactory tf= new TwitterFactory(cb.build());
twitter4j.Twitter tw= tf.getInstance();
List<Status> statuses = tw.getHomeTimeline();
for(Status status1 : statuses){
System.out.println(status1.getUser().getName()+ " : "+ status1.getText());
}
But I want to get about 4000 tweets in urdu language. I don't know how to do. please help me

Answer 1

With that code you will only get Tweets from the Timeline of the register user, from Twitter4j:
ResponseList getHomeTimeline() Returns the 20 most recent
statuses, including retweets, posted by the authenticating user and
that user's friends. This is the equivalent of /timeline/home on the
Web."
If you want to get at least 4000 tweets in urdu you could do several things, for example you could get the sample stream from Twitter:
ConfigurationBuilder cb = new ConfigurationBuilder();
cb.setDebugEnabled(true)
.setOAuthConsumerKey("**********")
.setOAuthConsumerSecret("**************")
.setOAuthAccessToken("***************")
.setOAuthAccessTokenSecret("**************");
TwitterStream twitterStream = new TwitterStreamFactory(cb.build())
.getInstance();
StatusListener listener = new StatusListener() {
#Override
public void onStatus(Status status) {
System.out.println("#"+status.getUser().getScreenName()+": "+status.getText());
// HERE YOU STORE YOUR TWEETS
}
#Override
public void onException(Exception ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
}
#Override
public void onDeletionNotice(StatusDeletionNotice arg0) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
}
#Override
public void onScrubGeo(long arg0, long arg1) {
}
#Override
public void onStallWarning(StallWarning arg0) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
System.out.println(arg0);
}
#Override
public void onTrackLimitationNotice(int arg0) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
System.out.println(arg0);
}
};
twitterStream.addListener(listener);
twitterStream.sample("ur");
Until you get the 4000 tweets that you want.

Answer 2

You can use twitter search instead of just getting specific user's tweets. What I have done for getting tweets in Turkish language is just using twitter's advanced search feature. In my situation adding lang:tr after specified search phrase returned tweets in Turkish language to me. You can use lang:ur instead of lang:tr for getting tweets in Urdu Language.
Here is my code:
public class TwitterDataGetter implements Runnable {
private Thread twitterDataGetterThread;
final static Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(TwitterDataGetter.class);
public TwitterDataGetter() {
try {
ConfigurationBuilder cb = new ConfigurationBuilder();
cb.setDebugEnabled(true);
cb.setOAuthConsumerKey("your consumer key");
cb.setOAuthConsumerSecret("your consumer secret");
cb.setOAuthAccessToken("your access token");
cb.setOAuthAccessTokenSecret("your access token secret");
cb.setIncludeEntitiesEnabled(true);
this.twitter = new TwitterFactory(cb.build()).getInstance();
logger.info("Twitter API Configuration Successful");
} catch (Exception e) {
logger.error("Twitter API Configuration Error", e);
}
}
public void getTweet(String keyword){
List<Status> statuses = null;
Query query;
QueryResult result;
try {
query = new Query(keyword + " lang:tr");
query.setCount(100);
do {
final long startTime = System.nanoTime();
result = twitter.search(query);
statuses = result.getTweets();
for (Status status : statuses) {
System.out.println(status.getText());
}
final long duration = System.nanoTime() - startTime;
if((5500 - duration/1000000) > 0){
Thread.sleep((5500 - duration/1000000));
}
} while ((query = result.nextQuery()) != null);
} catch (TwitterException e) {
logger.error("TwitterException", e);
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
logger.error("InterruptedException", e);
throw new RuntimeException(e);
}
}
#Override
public void run() {
while(true){
this.getTweet("");
}
}
public void start(){
if(twitterDataGetterThread == null){
twitterDataGetterThread = new Thread(this, "Twitter Thread");
}
twitterDataGetterThread.start();
logger.info("Twitter Thread started");
}
}
Calling getTweet(String keyword) method with empty string returns latest tweets in your language without filtering them with any keyword.
Hope it helps.
PS: you can also check search results for your language from this link https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=lang%3Aur